With results of five seats already out, the NC headed by Omar Abdullah has won three seats and was ahead in 23 of the 87 seats for which counting of votes was taken up on Sunday.
Omar Abdullah, seen as a prospective Chief Minister in a possible coalition government, himself won by a margin of 3,600 votes from Ganderbal, where he was defeated in 2002.
38-year-old Omar said his preference would be to align with Congress in case NC was to form a government.
Omar Abdullah, the man of the moment after his National Conference Sunday emerged the single largest party in the Jammu and Kashmir elections, would be a third generation Abdullah to take high office if he becomes the next chief minister.His grandfather, the legendary Kashmiri leader, the late Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah founded the National Conference in 1938 and became theprime minister of the state in 1947. He later also becme the chief minister in 1974 and died in harness in 1982. Omar’s father Farooq Abdullah became chief minister thrice in 1982, 1987 and 1996.The Abdullahs are the only political clan in the country, other than the Nehru-Gandhis, to put three successive generations into political high office.
hree former chief ministers - Farooq Abdullah, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed and Ghulam Nabi Azad – on Sunday won the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections while many former ministers joined the ranks of the losers.
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